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Open AccessUniversal Prevention of Dementia in Italy: A Document Analysis of the 21 Italian Regional Prevention Plans
Up to 40% of dementia cases are theoretically avoidable and population-level interventions (i.e., universal prevention) are a key component in facing the global public health challenge of dementia. However, in...
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Open AccessA systematic review on the risk of neurodegenerative diseases and neurocognitive disorders in professional and varsity athletes
The aim of this systematic review (SR) was to gather all available epidemiological evidence on former participation in any type of sport, at a professional and varsity level, as a potential risk factor for neu...
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On Schrödinger’s Cat and Evaluation of Trials Disrupted by the Covid19 Pandemic: A Critical Appraisal
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Overtreating Alzheimer’s Disease
The management of frailty in older persons is not easy, implying interventions beyond the simple prescription of medications. Biological complexity, multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and social issues often hamper...
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Ongoing Research Protocols for the Pharmacological Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Dementia
The implementation of effective interventions for neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) is perceived as one of the most pressing research priorities in the field of dementia and one of the main unmet needs from the ...
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Establishment of an Italian chronic migraine database: a multicenter pilot study
To optimize chronic migraine (CM) ascertainment and phenotype definition, provide adequate clinical management and health care procedures, and rationalize economic resources allocation, we performed an explora...
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Adaptation and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Non-Motor Symptoms Questionnaire for Parkinson’s disease
Although non-motor symptoms (NMS) of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are very common also in early stages of the disease, they are still under-recognized. Screening tools for non-motor symptoms, such as non-motor sym...
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Open AccessEHMTI-0277. Monitoring the use of symptomatic drugs in headache patients: a 6 month follow-up
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Attention in essential tremor: evidence from event-related potentials
Clinically subtle executive dysfunctions have recently been described in essential tremor (ET), though the presence of attentional deficits is still unclear. We investigated the psychophysiological aspects of ...
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Erratum to: Free and cued selective reminding test: an Italian normative study
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Free and cued selective reminding test: an Italian normative study
The presence of episodic memory impairment is required for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dementia by all current diagnostic criteria. The new research criteria proposed by Dubois et al. (Lancet Neurol 6:734–746...
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A simplified algorithm may lead to overestimate dementia in PD. A clinical and epidemiological study using criteria for PD-D proposed by the Movement Disorders Task Force
Making an accurate diagnosis of dementia in Parkinson’s disease (PD-D) patients is a challenge that neurologists will have to face in the coming years. In 2007, a Task force of the Movement Disorders Society p...
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Three years of experience: the Italian registry and safety data update
At the end of 2006, a pharmacovigilance program on natalizumab was settled by the Italian Pharmaceutical Agency, and on January 2007, multiple sclerosis patients poorly responding to the immunomodulating thera...
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The pharmacovigilance program on natalizumab in Italy: 2 years of experience
At the end of 2006 a country-based surveillance program on natalizumab therapy in multiple sclerosis was settled in Italy by a collaborative effort of the Italian Drug Agency (AIFA) and a group of experts and ...
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Excitatory and inhibitory after-effects after repetitive magnetic transcranial stimulation (rTMS) in normal subjects
We investigated the post-train effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on motor evoked potential (MEP) size and cortical silent period (SP) duration. rTMS was delivered over the primary ...
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Epidemiological evidence on multiple system atrophy
Multiple system atrophy (MSA), is a sporadic neurodegenerative disorder characterized clinically by any combination of parkinsonian, autonomic, cerebellar or pyramidal symptoms and signs. The frequence of dise...
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Open AccessMigraine in the emergency department: a psychometric study of a migraine “repeaters” sample
To evaluate the influence of psychometric variables on the “repeater” phenomenon in an emergency department, 15 “repeaters” and 27 outpatient migraineurs were recruited. All patients were submitted to the Beck...
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Use of antiparkinsonian drugs in the Umbria Region
Discussion of differences between recommended guidelines and clinical practice is very useful in medicine. The use of a computerized database of all prescriptions of antiparkinsonian drugs enabled us to perfor...
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DJ-1( PARK7), a novel gene for autosomal recessive, early onset parkinsonism
Four chromosomal loci (PARK2, PARK6, PARK7, and PARK9) associated with autosomal recessive, early onset parkinsonism are known. We mapped the PARK7 locus to chromosome 1p36 in a large family from a genetically is...
